![Milikan's Oil Drop [ Quantization Of Charge ]](/Concept%20Panel%20Images/Image_Milikans_Oil_Drop.jpg)
Experiment description
In this experiment we are going to perform Millikan’s oil drop method to observe the motion of tiny charged oil droplets between two charged plates. By changing the electric field, the oil drops can fall slowly, move upward, or become stationary. This helps us understand that electric charge is quantized and the charge on any oil drop is always a whole number multiple of the charge of one electron.
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